Location of chimbu province PACIFIC BISMARCK SEA OCEAN NEW IRELAND sepr CHIMBU PROVINCE PAPUA NEW BRITAIN BOUGAINVILLE AN EW GUINEA SOLOMON GULF OF PAPUA Port Moresby ORAL SE insula
Location of Chimbu Province
LAND UNIT Colluvial Spurs(Sedimentary)(CSS) LAND ATTRIBUTES DRAINAGE NETWORK Relief class Low Stream pattern Tributary Grain class Moderately spaced Altitudinal range 14003500m CLIMATE AREA 95 km Annual rainfall class 20003500mm GEOLOGICAL FORMATION Kondaku Tuff (Kik), Chim Formation(Kuc GENERAL DESCRIPTION Spur ridges occur on extensive colluvial-mantled outcrop The upper portion of spur ridges(spur crest and spur slope slopes, often beneath short steep scarps. They are tear-drop have gradational, well drained soils, whereas the footslopes in shape with the apex pointing upslope, and are intimately have well drained and imperfectly drained soils d with a tributary stream channel pattern In cross section they have narrow to broad crests(spur crest) and this unit is mainly confined to northern Chimbu where it short, steep slopes (spur slope) with moderate footslopes. intensively gardened to as high as 2200 m. where it occurs in the south it is h forested
Sedimentary spurs north of the Sena River east of Karimur. Landscape components are scarp (c), spur crest (D), spur slope(A)and footslope(B) Adjoining this unit are the Sena River terraces (ART c A AR
Sedimentary spurs north of the Sena River east of Karimur. Landscape components are scarp (C), spur crest (D), spur slope (A) and footslope (B). Adjoining this unit are the Sena River terraces (ART)